Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-25

his andlOrd on see, hOSeyI salu
Mott. c~omplacently describing the inter
view TO his daughter, when | sOrter in
timated in q keerless kind o way that gu
gar kettles and hair dye was about played
out ez securities, he just planked down
the honey for two months in ad-
vance. There SEE be, that's your Sc
curity-now where's mine?' L reckon |
don't hitch on. pardner,' SEE |; security
what for?' ''Spose you sell the ship?' sez
he, 'afore the two monthsi is up I've heard
that old Sleight wants to buy her. Then
Won gets back your money, SCI |. And
lose my roon,' SEE he; N otmuch, old man.
You sign a paper that whoever buys the
shin inside O. two months hez to buy me
ez a tenant with it; that's on the square
So | sign the paper. 1t was mighty cate
in the young teller, wasn't it, he SAID,
scanning his daughters pretty, puzzled
face a little anxiOusly; land don't you see
ez | amt goin' to sell the Pontiac, lt'sjest
about ez cute in Inc, eh? He's n cOntrac-
tor somewhere around yer. and wants TO
be near his work. So he takes the room
next to the Frenchmsn, that that ship cap
tain omit for the mines, and succeeds mater
ally t. his chest and things. He's mighty
ueart looking, that young Teller, ROsey-
long black mustaches, all his own color Re-
sey--and he's n regular high-stcppe:, you
bet. | reckon he's not only been Il gentle
man. hut sz now. Some o. them contract
ors are very high toued!'
al don't think we hare any right to
give him the captnin's chest, father sad
Rosey; there may be some private things
in it. There were some lttte,s and pho
tographs in the hsirdye mans trunk that
you gave the Photograph"
That's just it, Rosey," returned Alb
ner Mott, with sublime unconscloCsnesS,
photographs and love letters you can't
snll for cash, and | don't mind yirln' 'em
away il they kin make Il lclteI creature
happy"
'em away
''They're collateral security, Rosey,"
said her father, grimly. "CO-la-te-ral,'
he continued, emphasizing each syllable
nv tanning the fist of one hand in the open
palm OF the other. Collateral is the
word the big business sharps yer call
'em. You can't get round that" He
paused a moment, and then, as a new idea
seemed to be painfully born in his round
eyes, continued cautiously: IVA that the
reason why you wouldn't touch any of
them dresses from the trunks of that opery
gal u Skcdaddled for Sacramento? And
vet them trunks / regularly bought at
aucti0n-Rosey-at auction, OH spec
and they didn't realize the cost OF dray-
age
4 slight color mounted to ROsey's face.
"No," she said, hastily, mot that" Hest
tatiug a moment she then drew softly TO
his side, and placing her arms around his
neck, turned his broad, foolish face to-
wards her own. "Father," she began,
''wIen mother died, would you have liked
anybody to take her trunks and paw
around her things and wear Them
when your mother died, just this side
o Sweetwater, Rosey," SAID Mr.. Mott,
with beaming Inconsistencies, "she
hadn't any trunks. | reckon she hadn't
even an extra gown hanging up in the
wagin, 'cept the petticoat u she had wrap
ped around yer. II was about ez much ez
we could do 10 skirmish round with In
iins, alkali and cold, and we sorter forgot
to dress for dinner. She never thought,
Rosey, that YOU and me would live 10 he
inhabitin' d paliss OF a real ship. Ell she
had she would have died a proud woman
He turned his small, loving, b0ar.like
eyes upon her as a preternatugally innO
cent and trusting companion of Ulysses
might have regarded the transforming
Gree. Rosy turned away with the
~taintest sigh. The hahitual look of alb
stractiOn returned to her eyes as il she
had once more taken refuge in her own
ideal world. Unfortunately the change
did not escape either the sensitive ohser-
walton or the fatuous m~isconccption of
the sagaciOuS parent. "Ye'll be %nIOuntin'
a few furbelOws and liXins, RGsey, |
reckon, ez only natural. M"hbc Yen
have to prinE up a little now that we've
got Il gentleman contractor III the ship
III see what ! kin pick upin Montgomery
street" And indeed lie succeeded Il iew
hours later in accomplishing with equal
intelicity his generous design. When she
returned from her household tasks she
found on her berth q purple velvet bonnet
of extraordinary make, and a pair OF
white satin slippers. They'll do for a
start oil, Rosey." he explained, "and ! got
'em at my tiggers."
"But | 20 out SO seldom, father, and a
bonnet
That's So" interrupted Mr.. Mott,
complacently, lit might re Jest ez well for
a young gal like yer to appear ez if che did
90 ont, or would 90 out if she wanted to.
so you kin he wearin' that ar headstall
kinder like this evening when the contract,
or's here, ez if you'd Jest come in from q
pasear."
Miss ROsey did moi, however, immediate.
ly avail herself of her fathers purchase,
but cOntented herself with the usual scar.
let ribbon that like a snood confined her
brown hair, when she returned to her
tasks. The space between the galley and
the bulwarks had been her ~iavoritc resort
IN Summer when not actually engaged in
household work. II was now lightly rooted
over with boards and tarpaulin against the
winter rain, hut still afforded her a veran,
da like space before the galley door, where
she could read or sew, looking over the
bow of the Pontiac to the tossing bay or the
further range of the Contra Costa hills.
Hither Miss ROSey brought the purple
prodigy, partly to please her father, partly
with "a view OF subieCting it to violent and
radical changes. But after tryingi it on I've
fore the tiny mirror in the galley once OIL
twice, her thoughts wandered away, and
she fell into one of her habitual ~reverie'
seated on a little stool before the galley
door.
She was aroused from it by the slight
shaking and rafting of the doors of &
small hatch on the deck, not a dOzer
yards from where she sat. 1t had heel
evidently fastened from below during the
wet weather, but as she gazcd, the fisten'
iugs were removed, and the doors wer,
suddenly lifted, and the head and shoulders
of a young man emerged frOm the deck.
Partly from her fathers description, and
partly from the impossibility of its being
anybody else, she ut once conceived it Il
be the new lodger. She had time to note
that he was young and good looking
"